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ICDT
2011
ACM
270views Database» more  ICDT 2011»
13 years 16 days ago
On the equivalence of distributed systems with queries and communication
Distributed data management systems consist of peers that store, exchange and process data in order to collaboratively achieve a common goal, such as evaluate some query. We study...
Serge Abiteboul, Balder ten Cate, Yannis Katsis
ATAL
2011
Springer
12 years 9 months ago
A model of norm emergence and innovation in language change
We analyze and extend a recently proposed model of linguistic diffusion in social networks, to analytically derive time to convergence, and to account for the innovation phase of...
Samarth Swarup, Andrea Apolloni, Zsuzsanna Fagyal
SIGIR
2005
ACM
14 years 2 months ago
Gravitation-based model for information retrieval
This paper proposes GBM (gravitation-based model), a physical model for information retrieval inspired by Newton’s theory of gravitation. A mapping is built in this model from c...
Shuming Shi, Ji-Rong Wen, Qing Yu, Ruihua Song, We...
ATAL
2008
Springer
13 years 11 months ago
Complexity of terminating preference elicitation
Complexity theory is a useful tool to study computational issues surrounding the elicitation of preferences, as well as the strategic manipulation of elections aggregating togethe...
Toby Walsh
WSDM
2009
ACM
104views Data Mining» more  WSDM 2009»
14 years 3 months ago
Top-k aggregation using intersections of ranked inputs
There has been considerable past work on efficiently computing top k objects by aggregating information from multiple ranked lists of these objects. An important instance of this...
Ravi Kumar, Kunal Punera, Torsten Suel, Sergei Vas...